11 May 2019

Can you handle it?

Saturday 11 May 2019, 9:30am

Following two successful Eastbourne Trackstar Marathons, ‘We Run They Run I Run’ present Eastbourne Trackstar Marathon III! By choosing something we’d quite like to have a go at ourselves, we are hoping to appeal to like minded runners, who want to run a challenging but fun marathon on a standard 400 metre athletics track. “That’s a lot of laps!” I hear you say. “Yes,” we say, “105 laps and 195 metres to be precise!”. With all the facilities you need to run a marathon in one place, a playlist made up of songs from your requests and the opportunity to see your supporters every 400 metres, what’s not to like?!

Venue Information

The facility includes toilets, changing areas and showers. You are welcome to leave bags in the club room but these will not be monitored so please don’t leave valuables.

Parking

There is a free car park at Eastbourne Sports Park.

Registration

Registration will be indoors at Eastbourne Sports Park. Please come through the main entrance. The building, and therefore registration will not open until 8:30am. Numbers and chips are collected on the day, nothing is posted. Final instructions will be emailed in the week before the event.

Toilets

There are toilets accessible from outdoors, a short distance from the track, please use these during the run. There are also toilets, changing rooms and showers indoors.

Route

This one’s quite easy to remember. Starting 5 metres in front of the 200 metre start line, you will complete 195 metres followed by 105 full 400 metre laps! The run is in the usual anti-clockwise direction. There is no direction change.

If you need to leave the track at any point please do so and rejoin at the designated point.

Information & Brieifng

Final instructions will be emailed in the week before the event.

The run will start at 9:30am. The run briefing will be 10 minutes before the start outside of the building adjacent to the track. It is important you listen to the briefing in case of any changes or specific information. This event will be held under UK Athletics rules, a license has been applied for. The adjudicators decision is final.

Timing & Lap Counting

For Trackstar 2019 we are excited to announce that we will be working with ‘What’s My Time?’ to provide you with chip timing, lap count displayed on a big screen and printed result tickets. WMT are an experienced timing team in this kind of environment, who notably time the Crawley 24 track race!!

We always recommend you have your own method of counting for your own peace of mind.

Do not rely on GPS. It is not accurate on the track and can over or under read!

Marathon Etiquette

Please bear in mind you will all be running at different speeds! We ask that you are considerate to all other participants, and just because someone isn’t going as fast as you, doesn’t mean they’re not on course for their own goal. Everyone has a right to the racing line when running, overtaking is on the right, it’s all part of the challenge! If you need to walk at any point, please move to the outer lanes.

Aid Station

Water will be available each lap from our aid station set up just past the finish line, adjacent to lane 6, off the racing line.

Personal Aid Stations

Runners can set up their own personal aid station on a table along the back straight. This must be adjacent to lane 6, off the racing line.

Medical Information

St John Ambulance will be in attendance on the day.

Please read the information on the Runner’s Medical Resource website. It is the most useful advice we have found on the subject.

Spectators

We welcome spectators, they can even help you count your laps! Tea, coffee and home made cake will be on sale for spectators and they can enjoy the themed music playlist. Please take care when crossing the track, do not gather around the runners toilets or the timing point. Please refrain from running alongside participants on the home straight as it makes it difficult for our timers. If you are bringing dogs to the sports park, please keep them on leads at all times, and well away from the track.

Finish

At the finish collect your bespoke medal, and bask in the glory that you have just done something very few people ever will! Go and collect your free tea or coffee. Home made cake will also be on sale!

Entry

Don’t delay, limited places!On the day entries may be available if we have not sold out at £40. Exact money or card payment accepted.

When you enter you will be subscribed to our Trackstar mailing list, we recommend you stay on this list to receive your pre-run emails. You will be given the opportunity to subscribe to the ‘We Run They Run I Run’ mailing list to receive news and information on other events.

FAQ

Does Trackstar count for Good For Age qualification?

We can’t make that guarantee. It is unlikely. London require your qualifying marathon to be run on road. Other marathons have different schemes.

The following details may help when asking the organiser of the marathon you wish to use your Trackstar time for; Trackstar is run under a UKA / Run Britain MT licence. Details of Eastbourne’s track certification can be found here. Trackstar is chip timed with a professional system with video and manual counting as a backup.

Can I get a refund, defer or swap to anther event?

Unfortunately we are not able to refund, defer or swap your entry to another event. We do allow you to transfer your place to someone else, though you must use the transfer form on Active.com. A link to this can be found on your entry email..
The small scale of the event means it is very expensive per runner to put on. As an organiser we start to incur costs for the event from the moment the dates are booked. As the event draws closer ever increasing costs are incurred to the point where we cannot recover any of them, regardless of whether you run.